Google Adds Buzz to Dashboard

Google has made yet another tweak to its Buzz social networking platform. On Friday, the search engine giant added the feature to Google Dashboard.

Google has made yet another tweak to its Buzz social networking platform. On Friday, the search engine giant added the feature to Google Dashboard.

Dashboard, which was released in November 2009, provides you with a snapshot of the information Google has collected about you. Google aggregates the different information its gathered from 20 different products, including Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Web History, Orkut, YouTube, Picasa, Talk, Reader, Alerts, and Latitude.

"For Buzz, the Dashboard is another place to see how many people you're following, how many people are following you, and information about your recent posts as well as links to change your Buzz settings," Google wrote in a blog post.

It is an opportunity "to exercise choice and control over their information and their use of our products," Google concluded.

Also on Thursday, law firms in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of a 24-year-old Harvard Law student. The student said he felt like Google had opted him into a social network in which he did not want to be included, despite the fact that Buzz is opt-in.

Chloe Albanesius has been with PCMag.com since April 2007, most recently as Executive Editor for News and Features. Prior to that, she worked for a year covering financial IT on Wall Street for Incisive Media. From 2002 to 2005, Chloe covered technology policy for The National Journal's Technology Daily in Washington, DC. She has held internships at NBC's Meet the Press, washingtonpost.com, the Tate Gallery press office in London, Roll Call, and Congressional Quarterly. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in journalism from American University...
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